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Headlines for January 18, 2008ARMENIA BEATS TURKEY 13:1
1After a clear-cut victory over the Republic of South Africa, the Armenian under-20 hockey team beat Turkey 13:1 within the framework of the World Hockey Championship. During the first match Armenia ...POISONING
On January 17 residents of Akhurian Village Hasmik Glinian, 70, Nina, 23, Hasmik, 22, and 43-year-old Gayane Sedrakians were taken to hospital with gas poisoning.
Doctors say their state is of average ...GM ANASTASIAN HAS SERIOUS FRACTURE
Armenian Grand Masters Ashot Anastassian and Tigran Nalbandian missed the tenth tour of the Armenian Chess Championship. Anastassian slipped on the ice and broke his coccyx on the way to the Chess House. ...IN MEMORY OF HRANT DINK
On January 20, the Armenian Apostolic Church will perform a memorial service in memory of Hrant Dink.
To remind, a year ago, on January 19, editor-in-chief of “Agos” newspaper Hrant Dink was assassinated ...EMPLOYEES WENT OUT TO DEMONSTRATION
Representatives of the “SahakianShin” Company employed in the construction of an Armenian-American consulting palace gathered near the Government on January 18. They demanded their December salaries ...ARZUMANIAN SIGNS CONTRACT WITH RENDERS
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Full-back of “Pyunik” and the Armenian national football team Robert Arzumanian signed a one-year contract with the Danish “Renders” club.
The club occupies the 6th position in the ...“ONE CAN WIN AFTER THE FIRST ROUND”
“Hard work favours determined people. A candidate can win elections after the first round due to his assiduous work,” Leader of the People’s Party of Armenia (HZhK) Stepan Demirchian said today while ...WHO ASSASSINATED HRANT DINK?
An open letter to civilized society I believe the question, “Who assassinated Hrant Dink?” concerns many readers. Each individual is attempting to find answers, but in my opinion to answer this question, ...VAZGEN MANUKIAN: “I SHALL RUN IN THE SECOND ROUND”
Leader of the National Democratic Union (AZhM) Vazgen Manukian runs in the presidential race with the motto, “Let’s be masters of our country and vote.” He got acquainted with pre-election programmes ...ARMENIAN DELEGATION TO LEAVE FOR STRASBOURG
The delegation of the National Assembly headed by Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on State-Legal Issues David Harutiunian will visit Strasbourg on January 20-26 to participate in the winter session ...USAID AND IRI WITHDRAW EXIT POLL PROPOSAL
After intensive and detailed discussions with interested parties regarding a proposal to conduct exit polling in Armenia during the 2008 presidential elections, the International Republican Institute ...CEC REGISTERS ALL CANDIDATES
Today the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) registered all the nine candidates running in the presidential elections of February 19, 2008.
The presidential contenders are: leader of the “Orinats Yerkir” ...THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ADOPTED
the resolution on a more effective EU Policy for the South Caucasus. The European Parliament resolution on a more effective EU Policy for the South Caucasus passed on January 17, 2008 with several paragraphs ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1830 Following Sultan Mahmood's decree and the advice of the French, British, and Russian ambassadors, the Armenian Catholics in Turkey were given a Patriarchate and their own administrative organization.
- 1888 Birth, in Constantinople, of the actor Vahram Papazyan. He is considered to have no equal in the Armenian theater.
- 1906 Birth of composer Ashot Satian. He died in 1958.
- 1911 Birth of theater personality Gevorg Ashughyan.
- 1990 Start of hostilities between Armenian and Azeri Turkish forces near Raskh.
- 2001 The French Senate recognizes the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
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